You know what, the biggest myth is that America even has a "health care system."
We have some good docs and some good hospitals, and then we have money grubbing health care insurance companies and a money grubbing Pharma industry.
The docs and the hospitals do their best to navigate the quicksand and the hail storms and the avalanches of insurance and Pharma to give their patients the care that they need. Sometimes, there's nothing they can do and they just can't provide the needed treatment.
And, this is why we need a public option. There are people who are losing their insurance every day, and there are people who are choosing between their mortgage and the health care they need, every day.
People should not have to loose their homes when they have always worked at jobs that had health insurance -- simply because the health insurance company kicked them out when they got sick!
This is not the America I believed in as a child. I am deeply saddened by the heartlessness and the greed that threatens our Democracy.
We have to fight for what's right, not for the best sound bite!
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